In 79 A.D., Roman author Pliny the Elder marveled at how dust could turn to stone. "Who, indeed," he wrote in Naturalis ...

In this area, mafic igneous rocks are predominantly intrusion into Jurassic strata, occurring as vein-like bodies. This study presents zircon U-Pb age determinations and whole-rock geochemical ...

Among the new features are chapters dealing with the consolidation of magmas; the classification of igneous rocks; changes in composition subsequent to consolidation (including pneu-matolytic ...